The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium says its meerkat mob is growing. Moms Keeya and Naledi each gave birth to four healthy kits ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The meerkat mob at the Oakland Zoo just got bigger. One of the zoo's slender-tailed meerkats, named Sandy, recently gave birth to a litter with five pups, the zoo said Wednesday. A ...

Meerkats are cooperative breeders ... In the first three weeks of pup life after the dominant female gives birth, she will need to go off each day to find food in order to produce milk, so ...

Meerkat mums typically have 4 pups in a litter. But Maghogho’s family had 7. Very unusually Maghogho had allowed her sister to give birth at the same time as her. The result was that none of the ...

There are five new meerkat pups at the Oakland Zoo in California. According to the zoo, mom Sandy gave birth last month but kept them hidden in tunnels. The pups recently emerged to begin exploring.

A Chicago zoo has added a second mob of meerkats to its list of residents. This small mammal was made famous in the early 1990s by Timon in “The Lion King.” Like the beloved animated character ...

One of the zoo's slender-tailed meerkats, named Sandy, recently gave birth to a litter with five pups, the zoo said Wednesday. A video shared by the zoo shows the pups cuddling around their mother ...